The Sun. — London, England, 1810-12-26 00:00:00

'oat the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 25, 1810. Drning-street, Dec. 25, 1810. A disratch, - of which the following is a copy, was reecivedlait night at ‘ the OtEc,e of.the Earl of Liver fi orn Lieutenant-General Viscount Wellington, dated CartaXo, Dec. 6, 1 3 10. M f LORD, • The detaohment of the enemy's 'troops Com manded by General Gardanue, which had returned S•,breira Ftwtnosa, .have continued their march ,) the frontier, and by the last accounts had entered fp.Pll. . I' have not beard that this detachment had any onlmiinication with tile enemy's troops on the left , )t the Zezere, from whom they were distant about wee It:agues. I understand that, having lost : sotne risotters taken by a patrole and by a party of the Ordenanzu which accompanied the Hon. Lieutenant :ol, net Ponson.by on a re‘connoissance from'Abran • to . the River Codes, they made very particular inquiries respeaing the position ot Lieutenant-Gene ral Hill'S corps, and the means which the allies, possessed of crnsiing the Tagus at Abtantes; and, having commenced their march from cardigos wards me Codes in the morning, they retired about' eleven with great precipitation, and continued their retreat in the same manner till they reached the frontier.' • They were followed by the Ordenanza, wi; did them much mischief on 'the march, and took much baggage from them. The enemy destroyed_many horses and mules wl,ich could not keep up with them : and this march, if it Was ordered by supe iior authority, and is conneeted with any other ar iangement, had every appearance, and was attended ly all the consequences, of a precipitate and forced retreat. . No attention of any importance hag been made the position of the entity's troops since I ad dressed your Lordship. I have, &c. (Signed) 'WELLINGTON. Adtniratty.Office, Dec. , 23, 1810: Copy of a Letter from Captain Douglas, of his Majesty's S; F. B •1:() dddresseit tv Vice• Akluffial Euwao.i le id transmitted by tli latter,to Wilsoi, croker i Esq. SIR, Mlona, at Sea; - Dec. tB, 1810. . I beg leave to inform you that about ten. o'clock this morning, the Textl .bearing Esc by South thulteen leagues, we gave chace to an armed ves sel, carrytrig a press;ot sail to 'the Niirthward, and at twelve o'clock we,gaptpre:d the French schooner privateer LF Heros du Nord, belonging to Dunkirk, mounting twelVe two-pounders, apd two tu dive pound carronades, and forty-lour men on bond; Monsieur Pierre Malfoi, acting Commander. She left the Brill last evening, and bad made no capture. I have the honour to be, &c. J. E. DOUGLAS. Lord Chamlerlqin's Office, Dec. 23, 181 15. Orders for the Court to change the mourning on the 6th of January next, tor, her late Royal High ness 'the Princess Ameha, v iz. Tite.Ladies to wear back silk, fringed or plain linen, white gloves, black and white shoes, fans, and tippets, white n:-cklaces and ear-lings. (7 ,, r;te'is.;- - While or grey lustrings, tabbies, or damasks. iic :Jentlemen to continue in black, full trim med, fringt•d, or plain lined, black swords and buckles. , lin d Tess. --4 Gr ey frocks. MAILS. AkitlVED—teadik, 2. Waterford. terford. Dot—x Malta, a Wa- T ti E N. SOLEM QUIS DICAT It E. EA L4UM A UDEAT ? L U N LY 0 11) , 'WEDNESDAY', DECEMBER 26, 1810. Whirls(); Castle, Dec. 26, 'Oro. " His MiJEziY,.sitice the abatement of his has continued n.arly in the same state." ". H. R. REYNOLDS. • " M. BAILLIE. • " W, HEBEIIDEI,T. " R. • • Wt..ets." The Elia Fiendh frigate, which, u e yesterday stated to be on shore, has been attached, by the bolt , . •f the Diana, under the batteries of Tatihon, which succ.eeded in setting her on fire and coin pktely destroying her, without the loss of man. This morning we received by the Cadiz Mail a number of Letters and Papers from Spain, extraEts from, which will be found fn our subsequent co lumns. We rejoice to find that the intelligence continuos to be of a most favourable nature, and 'coal the citcui-Ustani:e of JOSEPH having recent:) , immense quantity of plunder from Ma drid to France, -we may infer that he thinks he holds 6. capital by a Try uncertain tenure. - The news from'Cadiz 'is not very important. Our flotilla has been very active in annoying the works ,and the flo tilla of.the Enemy. - - • The Cortes have voted a Monument of eternal gratitude to the King of Great Britain. When we mentioned yesterday the arrival of dis patches from Lord WELLINGTON; we added, that we understood that 'the corps of DAOIJET, in ap proaching the scene of a6tion, were panic-struck, and marched back to Spain: .The Morning Chroni cle of this day has thought proper to comment upon this expression, and to state its doubt of its truth. " We should rejoice to learn," says the Chronicle, " that there existed so easy a method of putting any " considerable number of the enemy hors de combat, but we must have some better• authority before we can place confidence in the rumour." The Paper in question is, we know, extremely sceptical; when any favourable intelligence arrives. from the Allied Army in Portugal; but if the writer of the article in question had con&seended to look at the Gazette of last night, he Would have found that a considerable number of the. enemy". (not index d commanded by DROUET, but by GARDANNE),' " had retreated out of Portugal," and, therefore, as far as relates to MASIENA'S army,. may be said to be hors de combat. But we suppoSe that the words " panic-struck," which we used, have drawn upon us this animadversion of the Chronicle, becau l se, in quoting our expression, these u ords are printed in Italics. Here again We must refer to the Gazette for our justification. Lord WELLINGTON letter does nJt indeed make use 'Of the words panic struck, but he says that the French were fol lowed in their retreat by the Portuguese Mili tia, who did them , much .mischief on their - re treat, and took much baggage trot!) them ; and that their march had, every appearance and all the con.' sequences. of a precipitate and forced retreat.--Ge neral GAttDAN i NE certainly did nut march into Por tugal for the purpose of immediately Marching out of it again ; when we find, therefow, thai he was pursued by the Portuguese Militia, that he suffered them to take part of his baggage, and that his march had theappearance and consequences ola futced re treat, we think we were fairly justified,ln the lan. guage which we usA. Some letters from lidlland have been received, which mention that BUONAPAHTE had 'ordered a large conscription in, that unhappy country. Private accounts from Paris pbsitively state, that BUONAPARTk bad made application to the Ex-Ein pressJOSEPHINE, for, her jewels, alleging that the campaign in the Peninsula had been attended with such expence as to redUce him to great pecuniary difficulties. It' is needless to say that JOSEPHINE was lobhged to comply with ibis request, but the wonder is that he should condescend to qualify his detrand with any thing in the shape of a reason.— JOSEPHINE is much esteemed by the people of Prance in general, and ever y body seemed to rejoice when she was released frown the painful yoke of Inti perial grandeur, and' permitted to enjoy the tranqui lity of private life. Letters from Archangel, of the 27th September, received in Holland, state, that on the 13th more than 50 ships were lying outside the bar, waiting a favourable wind; when next day, the wind being W. S. W. and a high sea, they slipped their cables in order to pass over the bar. Twenty of the ships which drew only 12 feet water succeeded, but others of them were 'wrecked on the bar; among which were two PaPpenborgheis, one Hamburgher, one Dane, and one American. Next morning the beach was covered with pieces of wreck. In all, 30 ships went to pieces. Tt►e Provincial Papers of the last three or four days announce much mischief done by tornados in the soutl►-eastern parts of the. kingdom. This Ca pital has, within the last 36 hours, experienced a similar visitation. About three o'clock last morn ing it blew a perfeal hurricane, and about four o'clock last after noon we experienced a most tre mendous storm. The Metropolis became suddenly wrapt in a black cloud, which burst upon. it in a dreadful shower of hail, accompanied with a most furiuus wind, Fortunately, however, it was as short as it was violent, not having lasted above 15 mit,utes. The late Duke of QUEENSBERRY, it is said, has left M , ss FI;iIIER, whose theatrical talents are well know-o, and has married since she quitted the stage, five thousand pounds. On Tuesday, a Court-Martial was held at Ports mouth, on Jacob Fambean, Emanuel Rotherings, James Aidguire, 'James Tapling, and Jmes Green, stamen of the Bellcrbphon, for mutinous and dis oiderly condua. They were found Gui/ty.. The' three former were sentenced to receive too, and the two latter 50 lashes•each. On the same day, Lieutenant Troke, of his Ma jesty's ship Africa, was tried for leaving the Ship on the Ist day ut May, at North Yarmouth, and not returning. The charge having ben proved, he was sentenced to be dismissed from the service, and rendered incapable of ever serving as an officer again. Friday Mr. George Chapman, boatswain of the Tyrian, was tried for assembling, orcausing to be assembled, several of the. ship's company, to hold a club in the carpenter's cabin, at which times they sat up to a late hour, singing and drinking, and making so much noise.as to disturb the other men. He was acquitted. Mr. Henry Taplin; carpenter of the T7irian, for drunkenness, was also tried and reptimanded.—Rt!ar- Admiral HAIWOUD, Ikea idni. Cu LIZ fit. Stvu.mt, NQV. Moveme9ts .of — the . French troops are continual, and in all direalonS.— The garrison this city does not atOually amount to 2000 men. • 'On the 12th an embargo was laid upon all the cocoa and sugar in this place, and great requisition of horses has been made,' for .what purpose we are not acquairited.,—On the 10th, a large mortar was shipped for San Lucar, and on the same day the whnia of the brigades; with their cor responding baggage, marched for Carmona. 'The troops advanced froth Las Puerto have aho taken the same direction. .From this latter 'place many carts yesteiday arrived, laden with - smith's forges and other effects. One hundred and eighty horse, which garrisoned ,Ostma and Ecija, have passed to Estram'aqura to reinforce General GERAtta 7 The French division of Grenada is reduced to 6,400 infantry, and 600 wretched horse. When it entered the provinCe a was composed of 8,500 foot, and 1,500 cavalry, subsequently to which it has 'been reinforced by 2,100 of the toot, and 150 of the latter. Latterly they have spread themselves in Granada; bantate, Chuitiani, and Elora; part at them are occupied , in the Alpujarras against an Alcade who has killed many of their men. To-day SoULT erneied this. city, from Xeres; the troops and the magistracy went out to meot him., ' • 'Notwithstanding the ContlibutiOn which .was late ly in - la.used, has nut yct 'been wholly received, be has imposed a fresh one of eight millions, SEBASTIANI 'who marcheJ against M bella his been obliged to fill back. people - o; Seville is always the same. The proximity of the Spanish parties, who have penetrated neatly to Cruzdel Catopo and Vima de la.Ciatos ; the want of couriers troth Madrid, none of-who4l have arrived TPe di*osition of the since the 2 st the intelligence from Portugal, the march of the French partizans, and other in dications of fear and d. jettion on the French, aug ment the hopes that the loyal inhabitants of Se rille hie - .always pursued of bettering their con dition. .MADRID, Nov. 2.—On the 31St ult.we received intelligence. that an advanced guard from this city was destroyed on the road- between Puerto de He viro and the Pardo. According to letters received from the kingdom. of ..Grenada, on the I,9th Oc tober, passed through Antequera, 150 Fngliih, made prisoners 'on , the coast of Malaga by the French, who paid very dear for the advantage, by the Dumber of Men they. lost in obtaining it: The French .spread reports of new projras of NAPOLEON, with regard to the fate of Spain and the Royal Family. Sensible persons hear-their with contempt, and view them as artifices to lull the Spanish nation. The French officers spread and support them, because they hope by these- means to' be able to finish the War in Spain, which they-carry on with the, utmost .reptigtanc6, and even with horror: They write from Castile, that in the hospitals or Salamanca, there are more than 4000 French sick, of whom Go die per day; that at Valladolid, sick: and wounded of the same nation continually arrive, the daily mortality amolig which is from 25 to '3O. They mention , likewise, the great inconvenience the party of D. Thomas Principe, that is in the vicinity of this last-mentioned city, causes the enemy. On the 3d lust, set out for France, the French convoy of which so much has been said. It de parted by various gates, but united on the road Of the Pardo. There go with it 300 Spanish, Portuguese, and English prisoners; 50 waggons of mutilated and invalided French, other waggons with with wool, pi6lures, select manuscripts, and other precious etreets, and many French people of both sexes. The escort consisted 011500 infantry. The following day many waggons and people left this place to join the caravana. There have arrived from France, 17 waggons laden With clothing and other etieds, in charge of 200 soldiers. The Ministers of JOSEPH are extremely pleased with the intelligence, that NAPOLEON has called to France, KELLLERMAN, the Governor of St. Andero, and others; and say that JOSEPH is named Gene ralissimo of the French troops in Spain, and BEL- . MAU), his Major-General. But at the same time, they are disgusted by ARANZA having been ar rested at Paris by order of . BLIONAPARTE, (this is positi%ely asserted), who has likewise ordered URQUIJO to appear there. The reason appears to be the publication made by the Spanish Go vernment, from various intercepted letters; to which is added, other charges relative to the manag ing and employing of the public purse. The point which extremely pains BUONAPARTE, the seeing himself' oblig,edto send as much 'money to Spain, as he formerly drew from it, and much more than he can aglin reckon'upon obtaining from it. Manatb, the night, betvv'ee . n the 6th and 7th inst. marched out, by the road of L. ganos, from 3 to 40b infantry, and 200 hotte, %WI some artillery. On the folloVving day some more troops set out; some accounts say to join the first, others to march to Aranjuez. On the 4th l inst. official intelligence arrived of disembarkation having been made by Spanish and English tkrOps on the coast of Cantabria ; this ins formation has caused great inquietude to the French and their friends The courier from Andalusia; who arrived on the 6th, brOtight no letters froth the kingdom of Grenade. It is supposed that the Pa• triots have lane, ly intercepted, in that side of Andu . 4 gar four couriers guing of coming. A few days ago ctitted • this port; proceedings from Malaga, 'a birk armed with one .24-pounder, and two B:pounders, and thirty men, commanded by. D, Gabriel Olivar. Thi&qtficer, whom the French made prisoner m 111:dfiga, and thought they . had., subdued, received the command of this bark, which he lia!etted, the moment. he was Ate, to restore to his country, CADIZ, Nov. '23-.--13ENO'VOLIS set sail from Co runoa for Santotia on the 14th, With 19 transports, and some frigates and brigs, having on board 12GO Spanish, and 800. English troops, with 27,000 mus kets, 10,000 ,uniforms, and Several other stores. Per.zons lately arrived from Castle state that the number cf Spanish light panics daily inC rea Si n g . in that pi. : ov'inCe,• tin& that they continued to hat rass the enemy in a manner which prOves ex tremely destructive to the latter. CORTES. SITTING OP THE BTH OF NOVEACSER. It waS - -deereed; thk the Members df the Sua pre'me Board of et:nsote, for the present, are to be ,chosen from among such inhabitants as reside in and the following day fiit-d upon for their SITTING' OF THE 9TH. Nine Members were chosen to compose titA Board above mentioned, three of whom belong to the Clergy. SITTING OF THE •UTII. t 4 _ The projeEt of. a periodical publication ) contain-, ing the transactions of the Cortes, was read and ar .; Proved ; atid it was further directed, that the Editor.' of the said publicaiiuu is to subtliit his . manuscript to a Committee of the Cortes appointed for that purpose, before it is sent to the press. It is to' b published 1 the expence of the Cortes. SITTING OF THE ISTU. -The compiaint of _the Deputy VILLANIJEYO• against the Editors of the CO7ICI:SCr i ' on account of the latter having !Dade use of certain libellous e%" pressions, in the 3gth number of the above paper• against the character of the said Deputy, was talica into: consideration. A paper 'having been read, in which Vtta..l , ' NUE V_A declared that he forgave the injury done hinls and several Deputies having declared to be rnoa 4 decidedly of opinion that there was no room for prosecution.against the Editor of the said periodica l publication, and much less for r his punishment, this" business was disposed of. by the previous questiva being moved and adopted by the Cortes. SITTING OP TUE I6TH. - It WilS moved and &creed,' that the order 'give ° on the Qd of thiS month with regard to the levy of 10,0 on men, to reinforce the army of the ista,, the obligation of all the cohabitants of Cadiz; wit h ' out any exception whatever, to work at the fal l. " -fications, is to he carried into immediate excouti°ll SITTING- OF THE 18TH. A Report of the Board of Health was received' 'by which it appears that Cadiz is in a healthy stat SITTING OF THE 19TH. The Deputy PEREZ DE CASTRO called to tl'e re. colleEtion of the Cortes, all the sacrifices m ade b 1 h e British Nation to mist . the Spanish in inaint 3 " 3 ' jog the independence of their country,.and the ' claia which that Nati o n and it s ill ustr i ous Chi e f P9° cs ; on the gra: itude of Spai n , an d move d, t h a t an etel l : 1 Monument, of gratitude b e vote d to t he vo.' rth) ! Monarch of that truly gr e at N at i on . The r•Ol ivtl was acceded to by acclamation, , a n d theddecreeposed oy Castro passed without the l e ast alteratio li % ,0 Lady IrAmiLToN is among the expeaantg of 3 i liberal ineuiprial in the gut of late Duk' - "" 1. Y, ,is he sett( a choice rrpast to every doy, and adotted one of his carriages ly to i“:.r use. Et.LtsroN, it is said, is enga : ,ed to perform a fr it ' nights et the L,Cellill doling the p'te,eti t sea,on• Mr. SKI3V IN.GfItN is the' tiyovved author of 11)6' new drama tort-comma at the Lyceum, under, 1-8• title of 77ie" A new lb), it is is it) preparation at C'r vela-Garden, tot- , su ct bje ut wlocit is derived ftr;' WALT . :•:.; Lifl - I:ti oftlic eitivthy Cot, ors( Ver t, tit t:Ji.lt tOUiljo-1 tt1i.,1 , 0,1a),. I i:pUi . ast.ntk 4. 1 9 1 NluaTuts: • 0 arri tlar sin the Gu to . lan we Cor spc pal 74 sh n th e y ~c